Viktor charges by credits. Ray charges by team size.
Viktor is the best-funded name in AI for chat. Here is where Ray is the better fit, where Viktor is, and how to tell which one your team should pick.
Compared against Viktor's own pages. Last checked August 2026.
What Viktor is
A well-funded AI coworker for Slack and Microsoft Teams, built to run work across a whole company. It connects to thousands of tools and bills by credits, a meter that tracks how much you use, so the price moves with your usage. Viktor's own page
One message, two outcomes.
What happens to the same sentence in your channel, depending on which of the two is in the room.
Priyain #ops
We need the Q3 numbers pulled and posted here every Monday morning.
Ray
- Schedules it and posts the digest every Monday
- Shows you the approval card before it writes anything
- Costs the same in a heavy month as a quiet one
Viktor
- Runs it across the tools it is connected to
- Draws down credits on every run it makes
- Costs more in a month the team leans on it
The difference, in one table.
What each one is for, side by side. Viktor's column comes from their own pages, checked August 2026.
| Dimension | Ray | Viktor |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Flat by team size | Credits, billed by usage |
| Your monthly bill | The band price, and it stays there | Moves with how much you use |
| Built for | Any team that lives in chat | Solo users to whole companies |
| Approvals | Structural, with no off switch | Configurable in their terms |
| Chat platforms | Slack today | Slack and Microsoft Teams |
| Integrations | A curated set, every write approval-gated | 3,000+ tools |
| Memory of your team | Org memory you inspect, correct, and purge | Learns your company |
| If a task fails | Never counted, never billed | Runs on metered credits |
| Free tier | 50 tasks that never expire, plus 25 a month | Trial credits that never expire |
| Data and ads | Never shared with ad platforms | Shares marketing identifiers, per their privacy policy |
What Ray costs
Free covers 25 tasks a month plus a one-time 50-task starter grant that never expires. Pro is one flat price for your team’s size: $49 a month for 1 to 3 people, $99 a month for 4 to 10 people, $199 a month for 11 to 25 people. No seats, and using Ray more never costs more.
What Viktor costs
Credits, bought in bundles and drawn down as the agent works. Their published entry economics are $50 for 20,000 credits, which is $0.0025 a credit, and their own pricing FAQ puts 20,000 credits at roughly 40 to 200 tasks depending on complexity. Their most credit-efficient case is therefore about $0.25 a task, and that is the floor we compare against rather than a heavier figure we could have picked. The meter has no ceiling, so a month the team leans on it costs more than a quiet one. their pricing page
The bill, in plain numbers.
What the same month costs on each side. Ray is flat. Viktor is not.
| Your team | Tasks a month | Ray | Viktor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 people | 500 tasks | $49 | from ~$125 |
| 4 to 10 people | 1,200 tasks | $99 | from ~$300 |
| 11 to 25 people | 2,400 tasks | $199 | from ~$600 |
Their published entry rate is $50 for 20,000 credits, and their own pricing FAQ puts that at roughly 40 to 200 tasks. We price every column at the 200-task end, which is their MOST efficient case and therefore the cheapest Viktor can honestly look. Viktor's pricing
Which one you should pick
The honest version, their side first.
Choose Viktor if
- You need enterprise compliance today. Viktor raised $75M and has the machinery to match it: a SOC 2 report, signed DPAs and SLAs, data residency, and a dedicated onboarding team. Ray is a small company and will not pretend to match that yet. If a security review needs those boxes checked before you can start, Viktor is the honest answer today.
- You want a big, proven vendor. Viktor has $75M in the bank and thousands of organisations already on board. Ray is new, small, and building in the open. If you would rather bet on scale and a long track record than on the product details, that is a fair reason to choose Viktor.
- Your team is on Microsoft Teams. Viktor supports it and Ray is Slack-only today.
- You need a long tail of integrations. Viktor connects to thousands of tools where Ray ships a curated set, and if the tool you need is in that tail, the count is the thing that matters.
Choose Ray if
- You want one flat bill you can predict, at any team size, with no credit math to do.
- You want approval to be structural rather than a setting somebody can turn off.
- You want memory you can inspect and correct rather than a system that learns about you.
- You would rather failed work cost nothing, because on Ray it is never counted and never billed.
What Viktor does not do
Each one checked against their own documentation, August 2026. If any of this changes, tell us and we will fix it.
- Viktor's credits have no ceiling. A heavier month costs more, which is the point of a meter and the thing teams tell us they feel. Ray's band price is the same either way, and the spend ceiling that makes that sound sits under every workspace. their docs
The rest of the field
If you are still drawing up the shortlist, these are the other tools people weigh against Viktor and against Ray. Each one says where it is the better pick.
Ray vs Claude TagClaude Tag needs Claude seats. Ray needs a Slack channel.
Ray vs OpenClawOpenClaw runs on your machine. Ray runs for your team.
Ray vs Grok BotGrok Bot drives a computer. Ray works your tools.
Ray vs ChatGPTChatGPT is an assistant you ask. Ray is a teammate that acts.
Ray vs GeekbotGeekbot collects the updates. Ray does the work.
Ray vs StanduplyStanduply runs the ceremonies. Ray finishes the work.
Ray vs DailyBotDailyBot makes the work visible. Ray moves it.
Ray vs Slack AISlack AI understands your Slack. Ray works outside it.
Ray vs Zapier AgentsZapier reaches everything. Ray lives where you talk.
Questions people ask.
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Try Ray with your own team.
Free to start, no card. Ray sees only the channels you invite it to, and nothing sensitive happens without your approval. Or read Viktor for their side of it.